July 18, 2012– SYRIA– President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law Asef Shawkat and the country’s defense minister were killed in a massive bombing in central Damascus on Wednesday, Syrian state media said. State television said Mr. Shawkat and Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Dawood Rajha, who is a Christian, were killed in an attack against the so-called national security building in the capital’s Rawda Square, while they and other senior security and defense leaders were meeting inside. Mr. Shawkat is deputy defense minister and one of the most powerful figures in Mr. Assad’s security apparatus. It added that there were other serious injuries among those who were at the meeting, but didn’t give further details. The killings come as rebel forces have moved reinforcements into the Syrian capital, battling with government forces and bringing the fighting closer to Mr. Assad’s seat of power. – WSJ

It will be a matter of time until Russian troops get involved and this war will turn into the doorstep of Israel. With Russian troops that close to Israel, we could very well be looking at Magog and Gog.

I’m just reporting the news and it should come as no surprise that the West is doing everything conceivable to unseat the Syrian dictatorship, without putting U.S. boots on the ground. The U.S. also supplied arms to Osama bin Laden and the Afghan freedom fighters when they were fighting the Russians. In the Middle East, they have a saying, and we would all do well to remember it:
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

None of this is hardly news…this has been ambiguous U.S. policy in the Middle East going back to the days of the Shah of Iran.